Welcome to Fourteen Holy Helpers!
Pentecost Sunday Coffee Hour and Registration
Pentecost (Sunday, June 8th this year) is considered the birthday of the Church. 14 Holy Helpers Church will be experiencing a re-birth that weekend as a worship site of the new Queen of Heaven (QoH) parish. While 14 Holy Helpers Parish is merging into Queen of Heaven Parish, our church will live on within the combined parish. This Pentecost Sunday we will be having a coffee hour in the Parish Hall after both Sunday Masses. This will be a time to gather with our 14 Holy Helpers family. It will be a time of fellowship and consideration for what the future holds.. If you have questions, staff and volunteers will be on hand to answer as many questions as they can.
At the Coffee Hour, you will have the opportunity to review and update your parishioner information that we have on file. It is important that we have current information as we will ask that you register as a QoH parishioner worshipping at Fourteen Holy Helpers. Using this special designation as a Fourteen Holy Helpers worshipper we will be able to provide you with envelopes that indicate your offertory donations should be used to sustain and maintain our beautiful church and campus. Those funds will be designated for 14 Holy Helpers.
The process will be simple … review your information, make changes and simply give it back to us. There will be other opportunities to update your information and register but we hope that you can join us at the Coffee Hour and take care of it at that time.
14 Holy Helpers Church will continue to live on if YOU support it. In addition to your offertory support you can also support the church by coming to Mass, attending our spiritual events and attending and volunteering at our fundraisers. As always we are 14 Holy Helpers. It is up to us to continue our 160 year history into the future.
Summerfest 2025
Summerfest 2025 is planned for Thursday, July 31 through Sunday, August 3. This year we are bringing back some of your favorite activities … Meat Raffle on Thursday, July 31, Nerds on Friday, Aug. 1, Hit N Run on Saturday, Aug. 2, and our famous Polish Platter Dinner and New Direction Polka Band on Sunday Aug. 3 in the Beer Tent. And that ain’t all … Theme Baskets and Games in the Parish Hall, BBQ Burger dinner on Friday and the best Grilled Pork Chop Dinner at a summer lawn fete in WNY on Saturday, Chalk Art contest on Saturday afternoon, and a Kids’ Zone outside on Sunday. Fun, Food, Music, Drinks … that’s 14 Holy Helpers Summerfest 2025! Details are available on our flyer … Summerfest 2025 flyer LINK.
Volunteers … no event like this runs without the dedicated support of our fabulous team of volunteers. Please, please, PLEASE consider joining our team. Review the available positions and sign up online at the following link … Summerfest Volunteer LINK.
Financial Settlement in Diocesan Bankruptcy
The Bishop is announcing a financial settlement in regard to the Diocesan Bankruptcy caused by the abuse claims. Total payments in the amount of $150 million on behalf of the Catholic Family of Western New York will need to be paid. The timing of payments and the specific amounts that individual parishes are expected to contribute to the settlement fund have yet to be announced. A letter from the Bishop announcing the settlement is available at … Diocesan Settlement LINK.
Merger of Parishes
In Fall 2024, Fourteen Holy Helpers Parish was notified that Bishop Michael Fisher had decided to merge Fourteen Holy Helpers Parish into Queen of Heaven Parish as part of the Road to Renewal program underway in the Diocese of Buffalo. It was noted that Fourteen Holy Helpers Church was to remain open as a secondary worship site under the umbrella of Queen of Heaven Parish. We have received a decree from Bishop Fisher declaring that the merger will be effective on Friday, June 6, 2025. The decree document is available at the link … Merger Decree LINK.
Our understanding is that Fourteen Holy Helpers Church will continue to offer Masses and services as we do now. The campus and buildings will continue to remain open and function as long as our Blessed Family 7 needs them as they do now. Ministries and activities will continue to be offered at Fourteen Holy Helpers.
The continued existence of our Church and the supporting campus will only be possible if you continue to attend and financially support Fourteen Holy Helpers. Funds donated at weekend Masses at Fourteen Holy Helpers Church and earned at our various fundraisers will be segregated for the Church and campus and be used for its operation and support.
Support those who Support Us
We have been blessed to enjoy the support of our local business community over the past year. They have provided our parish, and the events and services we produce, with money, products, and services donations. Through their generous donations we have been able to generate needed revenue to work toward our mission and serve the local community.
Due to the recent coronavirus health crisis, many businesses have been forced to either temporarily close or operate in a restricted environment. Even those not as directly impacted have had to operate in a new world of social distancing, working environment cleansings, or managing a remote work force. Our supporting businesses stood up to help 14 Holy Helpers when we called … Businesses that Support 14 Holy Helpers LINK. Please consider supporting them with your patronage when you are in need of the goods or services that they provide to the community. Thank them and let them know that 14 Holy Helpers appreciates their support.
On-Line Giving
On-line giving to 14 Holy Helpers is processed through a program managed by Vanco Payment Solutions. Vanco is a large on-line payment processor for faith based organizations and is used by a number of parishes in the Diocese of Buffalo. As a PCI Level 1 compliant service provider they are dedicated to protecting the security and privacy of our donors.
Making your payments on-line is easy. You can access our on-line system by clicking the blue Offering button found in the right hand column of our Home Page (see button below). You have the option to set up a donor profile to save your information for multiple donations … or make a one time donation without setting up a profile. Donations can be made via credit card or ACH withdrawal from a checking or savings account.
The system is available now. Call the Parish Business Administrator, Kate Wypij, at the Rectory (716) 674-2374 with any questions.
Parish Pictorials
We have started to collect the history of our parish life through photographs. If you have any pictures that you would like to share with us please contact our Webteam. Our current collection can be seen at the following link … 14 HH Pictorial.
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